PETTY REWIND - EP 127: The Employee Handbook of Criminality

Episode Summary

Trevin is using his vacation card this week to get episodes ready before his week off. Have a great week, and enjoy this classic petty rewind.

No murders, just bad decisions.

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What This Episode Covers

• Trevin is using his vacation card this week to get episodes ready before his week off.
• Have a great week, and enjoy this classic petty rewind.
• If you haven't checked out our 4th of July special episode, definitely go back to that.
• We're pretty proud of those stories.
• Clock in and prepare to feel trapped for the next eight hours—because this week, we’re heading to work in the most unprofessional ways possible.
• Amanda kicks things off with a Dreadful Dilemma about surviving the back-to-school grind, navigating chaotic drop-off lines that resemble a well-rehearsed drive-thru ballet.

Why Listen?

If you like true crime but think most true crime got a little too murdery, this episode brings petty crimes, dumb criminals, and dramatic storytelling without the heavy stuff.

Original Episode Description

Trevin is using his vacation card this week to get episodes ready before his week off. Have a great week, and enjoy this classic petty rewind. If you haven't checked out our 4th of July special episode, definitely go back to that. We're pretty proud of those stories.

Clock in and prepare to feel trapped for the next eight hours—because this week, we’re heading to work in the most unprofessional ways possible.

Amanda kicks things off with a Dreadful Dilemma about surviving the back-to-school grind, navigating chaotic drop-off lines that resemble a well-rehearsed drive-thru ballet. Meanwhile, Trevin’s stuck designing a Crime Con sticker for his first live appearance and spiraling into a branding-induced crisis.

For

Killer Facts

, Amanda breaks down the notorious Tent City Jail in Arizona—a controversial outdoor prison under Sheriff Joe Arpaio that’s somehow

too harsh

for actual criminals. Trevin, inspired by a recent

Oppenheimer

watch, dives deep into the explosive history of the Tsar Bomba, the biggest nuclear detonation ever unleashed by humankind (spoiler: it was

a lot

more than fireworks).

Then it’s story time, and today’s theme is “bad employees doing worse things.”

In Trevin’s Breaking Bad-inspired tale,

Christopher Adam Matous

and

Kent Jerome Duby

, two Taco Bell workers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, cook up more than crunchwraps—they’re caught running a meth lab

in the kitchen

.

Amanda shares the story of

Susan Navarette Rodriguez

, a 32-year-old Florida mom who decided the school drop-off line was the perfect time for a hit-and-run… on

Officer Michael Hernandez

.

Whether you’ve worked fast food, survived school traffic, or just love watching workplace disasters from a safe distance, this episode is your petty criminal employee orientation.

Take a break from the heavy and get petty.